... has to be "supper". I hate everything about it. It sounds like it's a big pile of sludge that hicks in the 1800s would eat. I cringe everytime I hear it.
share"hella" uuuggghhhh....makes my skin crawl.
shareI recall that the word was, perhaps still is, mainly used in English by farming families, where dinner is the second meal of the day—a very large meal taken around noontime, long after the crack-of-dawn hearty farm breakfast, and supper was the third meal of the day. Yes, urban hicks, possibly with farming family backgrounds, used supper as a synonym for dinner. There was also once a popular phrase, “sing for your supper,” meaning “perform, if you want to eat.” Farm suppers were lavish feasts of hearty dishes, the ingredients literally fresh off the farm; hardly gruel. Also, “to sup” is indeed a proper English verb. Elegant use of language has fallen by the wayside, along with everything else of elegance. If “supper” is the most ugly English word you know, you must never have heard any of the words associated with misogyny or racism or other forms of hate. I envy you.
A linguistic study done some years ago concluded that the most phonetically beautiful phrase in the English language is “cellar door,” which coincidentally sounds much like the Italian phrase, “stella d’oro,” or golden star.
In Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) which takes place from 1903 - 1930, when the Butler announces dinner to the upstairs aristocrats, he says "supper is served."
shareA few people here have been saying it's a British phase, but I've personally never heard it. It sound like an American south word. I don't like "supper" because of the way it sounds. I cringe when I hear it.
shareI guess I'm a hick then. Suppertime and dinnertime are interchangeable around here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7Xvy-NcFY&t=1m33s
It's very strange, the things that bother some people..........
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